Rectory: 8148 N Karlov Avenue Skokie, IL 60076 Phone: (847) 673-5090 E-mail: saintlambert@aol.com St. Lambert Parish - Skokie, IL Website: www.StLambert.org Sunday Masses: (5 pm Sat) 8am, 10am, 12pm Weekday Masses: 7:15 am (Mon-Fri) 8am on Saturday Confessions: Saturday at 8:30am

Pastor: Rev. Richard Simon Rev. Know-it-all: reverendknow-it-all.blogspot.com Deacon: Mr. Chick O’Leary Music Director: Mr. Steven Folkers Religious Education : Gina Roxas youthchurchred@gmail.com Office Staff: Debbie Morales-Garcia debbie.stlambert@aol.com Mr. George Mohrlein

To Register as a Parishioner: Go to stlambert.org under “About Us” or by phone. Weddings: Arrangements must be made 6 months in advance. Baptisms: Third Sundays of the month at 1:30 pm. Baptismal Prep Class is the first Tuesday of each month at 7pm in room 103. For guidelines and to register email Debbie. Bulletin Guidelines: Submissions should be received at the office 10 days preceding the date of bulletin publication. Submissions should be in electronic format and send to debbie.stlambert.@aol.com.

Rising very early before dawn, He left and went off to a deserted place, where He prayed.

Mark 1:35

St. Lambert Parish

Proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord February 4, 2018

Fifth Sunday in ordinary time

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Sunday Offertory Collection

January 20/21, 2018 Envelopes: $6,205.50 Loose: 2,516.44 Total: $8,721.94 Youth Church: $ 53.00 Church in Latin America: 1,640.27

Thank you for your continued support!

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Masses for the Week

Saturday, February 3

5:00 † Donna Mohrlein

Sunday, February 4

8:00 People of St Lambert

10:00 † Gilbert Mercado & Angel Mercado

12:00 † Nancy Ryan

Monday, February 5

7:15 † Desmond & Sarath Gunawardana

Tuesday, February 6

7:15 † Bridget Fernando

Wednesday, February 7

7:15 † Dorothy & Henry Wesley

Thursday, February 8

7:15 † Bridget Fernando

Friday, February 9

7:15 † Artura Cabacub

Saturday, February 10

8:00 † Bridget Fernando

5:00 † Frank Folkers

Sunday, February 11

8:00 † Glen Del Rosario

10:00 People of St Lambert

12:00 Irma Lemithe Birthday

READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: 1 Kgs 8:1-7, 9-13; Ps 132:6-7, 8-10; Mk 6:53-56 Tuesday: 1 Kgs 8:22-23, 27-30; Ps 84:3-5, 10-11; Mk 7:1-13 Wednesday: 1 Kgs 10:1-10; Ps 37:5-6, 30-31, 39-40; Mk 7:14-23 Thursday: 1 Kgs 11:4-13; Ps 106:3-4, 35-37, 40; Mk 7:24-30 Friday: 1 Kgs 11:29-32; 12:19; Ps 81:10-11ab, 12-15; Mk 7:31-37 Saturday: 1 Kgs 12:26-32; 13:33-34; Ps 106:6-7ab, 19-22; Mk 8:1-10 Sunday: Lv 13:1-2, 44-46; Ps 32:1-2, 5, 11; 1 Cor 10:31 — 11:1; Mk 1:40-45

2018 Annual Catholic Appeal “Come, Follow Me” This weekend, our parish will be conducting the Annual Catholic Appeal in-pew Commitment Weekend. Please remember that the Annual Catholic Appeal is much different than a one-time special collection. It is a pledge campaign where you can make a gift payable in installments. The ACA theme, “Come, Follow Me” was selected to remind us to continue to answer Jesus’ call to follow Him in thought, word and deed by providing the necessary contribution to fund ministries and services to share God’s love with many others in our Parish and our Archdiocese. Each pledge makes a difference because all Parishes participate in the campaign and the gifts of many enable our Archdiocese to deliver needed ministries and services. Thank you for your prayerful consideration and generous response.

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Friends, In mes past the job of assis ng at mass was limited to young men and boys in the hope that they might consider the priesthood. That is no longer the case especially as regards the ordinary form of the mass. I have for years talked about gender balance in the mass assistants. It hasn’t happened. I am grateful to the women who selflessly volunteer week a er week. I do not fault them, but if a woman volunteers, it seems that men are happy to stay in the pew. From now on I will permit women to outnumber men or men to outnumber women on the altar by only one person. That means if there are two men on the altar, there may be three women. If there are two women there may be three men. If there are two members of a family, for instance mother and daughter, or two sisters these will be considered one person. I would ask that if I am saying mass alone there be two people of either gender assigned and no more. I would ask people who are trained servers to check first to see that there are enough of the other gender serving. This will mean that unless men step up to the plate, there will be communion under only one form and there will o en be only three ministers for communion. Things will take longer and it will be very confusing, but I know no other way to solve the problem. It used to be that there were now only men on the altar, now it seems that there are only women. That was not the purpose of the changes. Fr. Simon PS I have heard that someone thinks this policy is

an -woman. Do they not no ce that I limit the number of men who can be on the altar? The excep ons for close family members are in favor of specific women in the parish. Furthermore, how can it be pro woman to have 7 or 8 women all fussing over one man, the priest? It makes the job of altar serving seem women's work and falls right back into the old stereotypes. Serving should be the task of all, not just of women. Also, if you would like to learn how to help at the altar it is very easy. If you can walk you can do it and if there are any people with disabili es who want to serve we can manage that too!

The Coffee Hour will be hosted next week

by the St. Lamberts Senior

Activity Club and the contact is

Marilyn Sala.

She can be reached at 847-675-5103. Your time and assistance are always welcome!

TIRELESS DISCIPLESHIP The stories we’ve been hearing these weeks come from the very first chapter of Mark, and they show us the public ministry of Jesus in its infancy. Today’s account shows some of the strain or adjustment of his new life of preaching the reign of God, healing the sick, and casting out demons. Notice that after sunset, when darkness ended the workday, people brought the sick and possessed to Jesus. The following day he rose before dawn to get away by himself to pray, but to no avail. Simon Peter and the others don’t just look for him, they pursue him, filled with the fervor that his ministry has incited. With the self-sacrificing example he gave until the end of his earthly life, he tells his followers that this is his whole purpose. Through Mark, he is also telling the early church, and he is telling us, that this is our purpose, our vocation: to be tireless in our pursuit of proclaiming the Good News, and in bringing the healing, reconciling touch of Christ to the world. Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co., Inc.

Letter to Moses “Mo” Derniste continued: “Why I remain a Catholic” I remain a member of the Catholic Church because it is, well, Catholic, that is universal. Jesus said “Go! Make all men disciples!” A Jew hearing that would hear, “Make all the goyim talmidim.” (“Make all the gentiles into religious students.”) To which the disciples must have said, “Is that possible?” For Israelites and for modern Jews religious identity is inextricably bound up with ethnicity. I have heard that it is a Jewish God that a Jewish atheist doesn’t believe. I imagine the same could be of a Greek or an Irishman. When the Emperor Constantine legalized Christianity in an amazing document called the Edict of Milan in 313 AD, he extended religious toleration to all religious groups in the Roman Empire, not just Christians. He clearly favored Christianity, however and was dismayed to find out that there were, then as now, lots of flavors of Christianity. There were Arians, there were Gnostics, there were Ebionites, and a host of others. He summoned a council of the church at Nicaea in 325 AD, where it was obvious that only one form of Christianity had the ability to trace its roots back to Christ and the apostles. That was the church of the bishops which had been called the Catholic Church since about 90AD. That church believed in a Trinity of persons in one God, the incarnation of the Son of God in Jesus, the Jewish messiah who died on the cross and rose from the dead. The universal Church recognized the structure of governance by bishops assisted by priest and deacons, governance that found its preeminent authority in the Church at Rome and in its bishop.

(C.f. St Irenaeus of Lyon Adversus Haereses, 180 AD, Book III Chapter 3 paragraph 2) Because of its toleration and increasing adoption by the Roman state, the Catholic Church was soon called the religion of the Romans. The Emperor Constantine, a man of no small plans, decided to move the capital to a city which he called New Rome. Everyone else called it Constantinople, to which you can’t go back to because now it’s Istanbul. He moved the senate, the bureaucracy, the palace, the great racetrack (the Circus Maximus) and everything else to New Rome. He assumed that the bishop of Rome would go too, but the bishop of Rome stayed put in Old Rome assuring that the Church would not be the religion of Rome, but the religion of the whole world. I am a member of the Catholic Church, not the Greek Church, the Russian Church nor any other national Church. What about the Roman in Roman Catholic? That was invented by Henry the Eighth and his friends. They insisted they were “catholic” but not “Roman” Catholic. Roman in Roman Catholic , has come to mean “in communion with the papacy.” As in the times of St. Irenaeus, the bishops still look to the papacy for preeminent authority. The papacy remains a focal point for the visible unity of this world wide community of faith, though each bishop is surprisingly autonomous. The papacy is the focal point of our visible unity. There have been some popes who were real pieces of work. One only has to read the history of the papacy to learn that there have been quite a few reprobates and a couple of loons who were popes, but it is the papacy that threads through Christian history despite the weak humanity of the men who have sat on Peter’s teaching chair. We in modern times are very fortunate to have been blessed by some very good and holy popes, but popes come and go. The papacy remains. The Church, despite the worst the devil can do, is still in unity through time and space, though that unity is sometimes severely challenged. The great

The Reverend Know-it-all “What I don’t know… I can always make up!”

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commission, to teach all nations continues, and I, despite my own sinfulness, continue to be a Catholic. The Rev. Know-it-all

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Fr. Richard Simon, of Relevant Radio’s Father Simon Says, will give the

Lenten Mission at St. Catherine Laboure Parish on Sunday, Feb. 25 at 7:30 pm and Monday,

Feb.26 at 7:00 pm. His topic is “Repentance: It’s Not What You Think!” Come join us as Lent gets underway and Fr. Simon tells us what it means to “Repent! And believe the gospel!”

Refreshments served. Free-will offering. St. Catherine Laboure 3535 Thornwood,

Glenview IL. 847-729-1414.

We’re reading St. Paul’s letter to the Corinthians these days. What was Corinth like? It had a beautiful setting on an isthmus, about

fifty miles from Athens. The location makes for very easy exchange by sea routes between Greece and Italy, a factor in its economic success even today. In Paul’s day it was a cosmopolitan and wealthy city with inhabitants drawn from all over the world, including a sizeable Jewish community. When Paul arrived about the year 50, the city was only about a century old, but already five times the size of Athens. Paul lived in Corinth for a year and a half, and a few years later came back for three months. The community of Christians there struggled against the influence of a very secular and self-indulgent society that was blind to the plight of the poor. Pagan attitudes afflicted the community, which had a way of breaking Paul’s heart; he wrote to them sometimes “with many tears” (2 Corinthians 2:4). Today, Corinth is a small industrial city. Its

historic core has been destroyed by a series of earthquakes over the centuries, and what little remained was totally obliterated in a war with Turkey in the 1820s. There’s a core city with glamorous shops to catch the tourists, but it is mainly a cargo port, with piles of marble, tiles, and minerals everywhere, a huge oil refinery nearby, a busy canal, a modern fast rail line to Athens, and a meeting point of major highways. Today, the remains of the Temple of Apollo and the marketplace are more ruined than most such sites. The glory of the city Paul knew well has faded, but the relevance of his words shines through the centuries. —Rev. James Field, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

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Help Support Our Seminarians by entering the 2018 SunShine Game Sponsored by the Knights of Columbus, Skokie You have a chance to win every month from March 2018 to and including February of 2019. Funds generated help Catholic Seminarians. $15 per number or ( buy 3 and get the 4th free ). Itʹs open to, ANYONE. Winners do not have to be present, Checks will be mailed to you. For an updated list of Winners visit our web site AKofC3243.org@ & click on NEWS. 1st PRIZE $60 , 2nd PRIZE $30 , 3rd Prize 1 free Number for 2019 Game To Enter : Please include , NAME of each entrant and FULL ADDRESS. MAIL TO: Ray Lakoske , 232 Cottonwood Rd. , Northbrook, IL. 60062-1302 . Make check payable to Fr. Stroot Council K of C. Two Seminarians equally shared $1,000.00 from the game funds. Their names are ; Mark Augustine at Mundelein Seminary and Carlos Soria at St. Joseph Seminary. FOR MORE INFORMATION, CALL 847-272-1580

Retreat/ workshop For widowed men/women

Looking for a way to navigate your way

through life’s changes Hoping to find joy in living once more?

Dates: March 3 & 4, 2018 OLA Retreat House, Lemont

(Overnight incl.- no commuters.) April 21 & 22, 2018

Presence/Holy Family Med Ctr. (No overnight available here.)

For more information contact us at Joyful Again! Widowed Ministry

Ph: 1-708-354-7211 Email: joyfulagain7211@gmail.com

Website:www.joyfulagain.org (Short video on website.)

LOSS Program for Children and Youth The Loving Outreach to Survivors of Suicide (LOSS) Program for Children and Youth continues to meet with bereaved children and adolescents who have lost a loved one to suicide. This specialized grief support program provides individual counseling and group support for child and teen survivors. Counseling is offered in various Chicagoland locations. The program has no cost and is always tailored to fit the child and family’s grief support needs. For more information, or to do an intake, contact (312) 655-7284.